What is HIPP? No, not the Tower of Power song, but instead "Historically Informed Performance Practice." This was a term introduced to me during my doctoral degree. Prior to that time, everyone referred to this as HPP, "Historical Performance Practice." HIPP indicates that we are making informed assumptions about what the performance practice was based on records and writings and instrumental abilities. During the baroque period of western music, (JS Bach era), the scores are sparse, but we know from writings and edits, that multiple embellishments were added to the music in performance by the performer themselves. When I look at the old scores for this project, I often see missing gracenotes between repeated notes. For example, look at the opening of the second part of the jig "The Borderers." Here, the separating high g gracenote between the two long high A's is missing. HIPP suggests that we already know this is not possible, and that as